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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I recently heard someone say they were upset because a relative of theirs was marrying a non-Jew. I found the statement utterly fucking pathetic. There's no worse measure of a man than the heritage he happened to be born into and no lesser a person than one who values idiot traditions above peoples' feelings for one another.
S(pardon the soapbox - this issue really irks me)D
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To be fair, a lot of the reason for that feeling among some Jews (particularly secular ones, in my experience) is just trying to make up some numbers to fend off extinction after so many of us were slaughtered in the Holocaust. So it's not the typical stupid purely faith-related bigotry.
Of course, I generally agree. Way better off without some nutbag who takes religiosity (and identical religiosity, at that) as a measure of virtue.
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